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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Steward Neil Sheath and Laila Fadli Dokkali
A ‘fairy tale’ as told by a Sir Sydney Camm Scholarship Winner
Last year Laila Fadli Dokkali was awarded the Coachmakers’ Sir Sydney Camm Aerospace Scholarship to help complete her undergraduate project. The award helped her graduate with a first-class honours in Aeronautical Engineering from Brunel University and has now progressed to […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Dr Dorothy Thompson-Evans
An evening at the House of Commons
Friends and Liverymen of the Coachmakers enjoyed an interesting and thought provoking evening tour of the Palace of Westminster, guided by the charismatic raconteur and Member of Parliament Assistant Mark Garnier OBE. Mark escorted us from the vast Westminster Hall, […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Liveryman Adrian Smith
Are you ready for winter driving?
It’s that time of year again – a time of low temperatures. I recall, as a child growing up in north east Scotland, there were snow depths which came up past an adult’s knees and further. One had to be […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Renter Warden David Barrett
A Christmas coach ride adventure
Christmas is a great time to get away to warmer climates; your Renter Warden David Barrett and his wife Marie Gilberte visited the coral reef island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean where ‘Gil’ was born. Once a French colony, […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Liveryman Alastair Boyes
Coachmakers are fired up for shooting season
The Coachmakers game shooting day of the 2023 season took place at the Maisemore Court Estate in Gloucestershire on 30th December. The days consisted of five drives shot by a team of eight guns. The team was made up of […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Assistant Lyn Litchfield
Meet the new members of the Coachmakers’ family
The court meetings at the Aerospace Industry Dinner in November 2023, and Award to Industry dinner in January 2024, saw a number of new Freemen and Liverymen sworn and clothed to the Livery, as follows: Freeman Abbie Carr Abbie and […]
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Coachlines - January 2024
30.01.24 Freeman Nolan Newman
The problems with current Battery Electric Vehicles – part one
My next car is very likely to be electric. Not because it is the best car for my needs, because it is clearly not. Nor because I believe it is truly beneficial environmentally*. In my previous blog, I made a […]
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Coachlines - December 2023
20.12.23 The Master Bettine Evans
Master’s message December 2023
Greetings fellow Coachmakers. I do hope you’re all well and looking forward to Christmas, when we, the fortunate ones, will eat too much, drink too much, make merry, go to parties and have a generally jolly time. We enjoyed a […]
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Coachlines - December 2023
20.12.23 Assistant Lyn Litchfield
A letter from the Editor – December 2023
Dear readers, It’s at this time of year when I wish I was just 17 years of age again. That’s the year when I had my very first Christmas. That’s the year when I stepped into a church for the […]
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Coachlines - December 2023
20.12.23 The Clerk
Clerk’s Notes – December 2023
On 21st December 1940, nine Swordfish aircraft of 815 and 819 Naval Air Squadrons operating from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS attacked an Italian convoy off Kerkanah Island, Tunisia, and sank two of the vessels involved. On the same date in 1941 a […]
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Coachlines - December 2023
20.12.23 The Clerk
Award to Industry 2024 – winner announced
The Coachmakers’ Award to Industry 2024 has been won by Reaction Engines for its technological contribution to, and innovation in the field of sustainable aviation. Reaction Engines has been trading for more than 30 years and has developed from being […]
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Coachlines - December 2023
20.12.23 The Clerk
In memory – Past Master Jeffrey Rose CBE
Past Master Jeffrey Rose CBE passed away on Saturday 16th December 2023. He joined the Company in 1981 and served as the Master Coachmaker in 2006. Many of you will know him better from his time working at the RAC. […]
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